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If Peace Never Comes, This Will Be the Reason | TheTower.org
Wonderfully put
Daily links 05/24/2013
Daily links 04/30/2013
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Publishing Open Data – Do you really need an API? | Peter Krantz
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Government: Do You Really Need An API? – Sunlight Foundation Blog
Good points, well presented.
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10 Awesome Examples of Ecommerce Sites Using Responsive Web Design | Business 2 Community
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Why Facebook is blue: The science of colors in marketing – The Buffer Blog
Also fascinating
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The secrets of body language: why you should never cross your arms again – The Buffer Blog
Fascinating
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Open government reboot focuses on APIs instead of data | Ars Technica
Good comment on this article by longhairedboy:
In many ways, the new initiative is an attempt to correct the failings of the government’s first “open data” effort, Data.gov.This is stupid, actually. The Data.gov effort did not fall short because of clunky data formats, but rather because funding was drastically cut.
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/da … _by_75.phpMany others have more thoughtfully described the problems with providing government data as APIs and I’ll provide links. Basically, the first step should always be providing data as downloads as easy to use text files like CSV. APIs are much harder to design and support. As a result of being underfunded in the government space they typically perform too poorly to be relied on my 3rd parties. Read more here:
http://sunlightlabs.com/blog/2012/gover … ed-an-api/
http://www.peterkrantz.com/2012/publish … pi-design/
http://sgillies.net/blog/1101/does-plei … ve-an-api/Government agencies shouldn’t be spinning their wheels thinking about XML vs JSON, RESTful vs SOA. They should be concerned with providing accurate, timely, and extensive information in simple plain text formats. Once this is achieved, it _may_ make sense to start thinking about APIs for a subset of those datasets.”
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could this be used for my data streams from various QS sensors, apps and platforms?
Daily links 04/19/2013
Daily links 03/26/2013
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BBC News – Mobile location data ‘present anonymity risk’
“The idea here is that there is a natural trade-off between the resolution at which you are capturing this information and anonymity, and that this trade-off is just by virtue of resolution and the uniqueness of the pattern,”
But the authors say their purpose is to provide a mathematical link – a formula applicable to all mobility data – that quantifies the anonymity/utility trade-off, and hope that the work sparks debate about the relative merits of this “Big Data” and individual privacy. -
From Purchase to Targeted Ads: Where Your Data’s Going | DataWorks – Advertising Age
Daily links 03/11/2013
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Enliken Discover – Only half of ad targeting data is right
.. in case you didn’t know.
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